The objective of this research project is to examine the relationship between demand and price volatility in the retail gasoline industry. We study to what extent can demand shocks explain the daily price…
The cross-sectional evaluation of support measures for innovative start-ups analyses the impacts, synergies and complementarities among a series of programmes offered by the Federal Ministry of Economics and…
The goal of this project is to provide a systematic and methodologically comprehensive analysis of the link between regional inequality and political discontent and increasing populism for the case of Germany. We…
Pursuing the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Commission addresses the malfunctioning of the Internal Market due to corporate tax obstacles. In this context, effective tax burdens reveal possible…
In recent years, the share of firms that engage in digitalisation activities has been rising whereas the share of firms with product or process innovations has been gradually declining. The aim of the study was to…
The German government's climate protection concept 2030 includes the goal of an European, comprehensive certificate trading system for greenhouse gas emissions for all sectors. In addition, the European…
The recording of technological capabilities through a comprehensive system of indicators is a central part of the annual report on the conditions of research, technology and innovation of the German…
The 2001 pension reform in Germany substantially altered the public DI system, by changing the job-related eligibility criterion from “own-occupation” insurance to “any-occupation” insurance as well as reducing…
In the year 2006, ZEW had developed the Country Index for Family Enterprises on behalf of the Stiftung Familienunternehmen. The objective of this index is an international comparison of investment locations…
While the magnitude and length of the economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be reliably evaluated at this early stage, it is certain that the wide-ranging countermeasures to the pandemic…
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is not only a humanitarian crisis, but also a drastic economic crisis. While the course can hardly be predicted, it is already foreseeable today that the economic and…
The goal of this project is to develop an expertise which, based on quantitative and qualitative analyses of the challenges arising from the current Corona-Crisis for German local communities, shall propose…